On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Travis Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> stonecrest wrote a very useful script in my opinion a while ago : >>> http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-November/016238.html >>> >>> However, it hasn't been updated since the svn move and the new abs. >>> It had a feature to fetch the abs tree itself, using csup directly. But >>> anyway it is not required, abs can be used manually instead, so I just >>> removed that part. >>> The second problem is the directory structure, which is now different for >>> core/extra/etc, where the package dir are on the first level, compared to >>> community which still has the old layout with an additional level of >>> category. This breaks the following function : >>> def repo_from_path(path): >>> return path.split("/")[-4] >>> It should be -4 for community and -3 for the rest. >>> Instead I just used 3, but it will only work on /var/abs/ tree (or any other >>> structure with just 2 directory levels). >>> Anyway, this was just two quick hacks to get the script working again and >>> see what were its results now. And it is still far from perfect :) >>> >>> I think this script is something that packagers (of the official repos) >>> should check regularly to ensure the quality of arch pkgbuilds and packages. >> >> I think I might add this in to this set of "repo maintenance" cron >> jobs so that it will email the dev list once a day. It's definitely >> worth it. >> >> I just checked it in in the dbscripts repo. >> http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=commit;h=1c9a21bdf378ddd3572b3b8f405d99b3063521c9 >> (Thanks Scott) >> >> Travis, would you mind taking a look at this and patching it to work >> over the /home/abs tree on gerolde? > > Sure - I probably won't get to it tonight though. I've starred this > in gmail, so hopefully I'll remember. ;) > > Feel free to poke me relentlessly about it if I don't produce anything > before the end of the week. >
Patch created and sent to your gmail - I wasn't sure if I should send it to a list or to gmail. :P
